March 22nd
Holidays and Festivals
Emancipation Day (Puerto Rico) * (See Below)
World Day for Water a.k.a. World Water Day (UN)
American Diabetes Association Alert Day
Education and Sharing Day
Spring Fairy Fun Day
International Day of The Seal
As Young As You Feel Day
International Goof Off Day
The fourth day of Quinquatria, held in honor of Minerva. (Roman Empire)
Earliest date on which Easter Sunday can fall, while April 25 is the latest. (Christianity) Easter is the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after March 21.
Christian Feast Day of Basil of Ancyra (Roman Catholic Church)
* Emancipation Day (Puerto Rico), or Día de la Abolición de la Esclavitud
Toast of The Day
"May you have food and raiment,
a soft pillow for your head.
May you be forty years in heaven
before the devil knows you’re dead."
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Cadillac Margarita
2 Parts Top Shelf Tequilla
1 Part Grand Marnier
1 Part Sweet and Sour Mix
Garnish With A Squeezed Lime
Salt the rim
Wine of The Day
Forchini 2007 Proprietor's Reserve
Style - Old Vine Zinfandel
Dry Creek Valley
$30
Beer of The Day
- Eastern Hemisphere -
Leghorn
Brewer - Roosters Brewing Co. Ltd., Knaresborough, UK
Style - English-Style Summer Ale
- In Celebration of the Feast of Santa Giulia da Corsica, Patron saint Saint of Livorno, traditionally called Leghorn (May 22)
- Western Hemisphere -
Green Flash Palate Wrecker
Brewer - Green Flash Brewing Co., San Diego, California, USA
Style - "Triple" IPA
Joke of The Day
I have a new pick up line that works every time. It doesn't matter how
gorgeous or out of my league a woman might be, this line is a winner & I
always end up in bed with them. Here's how it goes 'Excuse me love, could I
ask your opinion? Does this damp cloth smell like chloroform to you?'
Quote of the Day
"Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world."
- Kaiser Wilhelm
Whiskey of The Day
Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey
Price: $20
March Observances
Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month
American Red Cross Month or Red Cross Month
Bell Peppers and Broccoli Month
Berries and Cherries Month
Brain Injury Awareness Month
Child Life Month
Colic Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Education and Awareness Month (Different sponsor than National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
Credit Education Month
Deaf History Month (3/13 to 4/15)
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month
Employee Spirit Month
Exotic Winter Fruit, Leeks and Green Onions Month
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science and Engineering Month
National Expect Success Month
Holy Humor Month
Honor Society Awareness Month
Humorists Are Artists Month
International Expect Success Month
International Ideas Month
International Listening Awareness Month
International Mirth Month
International Women's Month
Malignant Hypertension Awareness & Training Month
March for Babies (March and April)
Music In Our Schools Month
National Athletic Training Month
National Caffeine Awareness Month
National Cheerleading Safety Month
National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month
National Color Therapy Month
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (Different sponsor than Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
National Craft Month
National Ethics Awareness Month
National Eye Donor Month
National Frozen Food Month
National Irish-American Heritage Month
National Kidney Month
National Kite Month (3/31-4/30)
National March Into Literacy Month
National Multiple Sclerosis Education & Awareness Month
National Nutrition Month
National On-Hold Month
National Optimism Month
National Peanut Month
National Social Work Month
National Umbrella Month
National Women's History Month
Optimism Month
Play-the-Recorder Month
Poetry Month
Poison Prevention Awareness Month
Red Cross Month
Save Your Vision Month
Sing With Your Child Month
Small Press Month
Social Workers Month
Spiritual Wellness Month
Steroid Abuse Prevention Month
Supply Management Month
Umbrella Month, Natl
Vulvar Health Awareness Month
Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month
Workplace Eye Wellness Month
Youth Art Month
Observances this Week
Campfire USA Birthday Week, Third Full Week in March
Health Information Professionals Week, Third Full Week in March
National Animal Poison Prevention Week, Third Full Week in March
National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week, Third Full Week in March
Root Canal Awareness Week, Third Full Week in March
Health Information Professionals (HIP) Week, (ahima.org) (Formerly Health Information & Technology Week) Third Full Week in March
American Chocolate Week, Third Full Week in March
Act Happy Week, Third Monday to Sunday
Flood Awareness Week, Third Work Week in March
Wellderly Week, Third Work Week in March
Wildlife Week, Third Work Week in March
World Folktales & Fables Week, Third Work Week in March
Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination, Fourth Week of March
Historical Events on March 22nd
238 Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman Emperors.
752 Stephen II elected Catholic Pope (or 23rd)
1349 Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death)
1457 Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book
1556 Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury
1594 French King Henri IV festival in Paris
1621 Hugo de Grote escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein castle, Neth
1621 The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
1622 Jamestown massacre, Algonquian Indians (Powhattan) kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.
1630 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)
1630 The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
1638 Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1680 Parliament of Breisach accept French sovereignty over Elzas
1692 Emperor Leopold I names duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king
1733 Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer)
1739 Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
1765 The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
1775 Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the English parliament
1778 Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state
1784 The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State
1794 Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries
1809 Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
1822 Gioacchino Rossini marries Isabella Colbran in Bologna
1822 NY Horticultural Society founded
1829 The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
1841 Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones)
1849 The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
1861 1st US nursing school chartered
1862 San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation
1865 Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA
1871 In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
1872 Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
1873 Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico, The law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly
1874 Young Men's Hebrew Association organizes in NYC
1882 Edmunds Act adopted by US to suppress polygamy in the territories
1888 English Football League established
1894 Stanley Cup, Montreal AAA beat Ottawa Generals, 3-1 (1st Cup game ever)
1894 The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
1895 Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience
1895 First display (a private screening) of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumière.
1896 Charilaos Vasilakos wins 1st marathon (3:18)
1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
1903 Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought
1906 First Anglo-French rugby union match at Parc des Princes in Paris
1914 World's 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins
1916 The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
1922 British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison
1923 The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
1927 Federico Garcia Lorca's "El Maleficio," premieres in Madrid
1928 Noel Coward's musical "This Year of Grace," premieres in London
1929 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes
1929 KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions
1929 USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
1933 FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal
1934 1st Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Ga
1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000)
1935 Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (NY)
1939 Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany, World War II.
1941 The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, United States, begins to generate electricity.
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1942 In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte, World War II.
1943 Dutch work week extended to 54 hour
1943 Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium
1943 SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
1943 World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
1944 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin
1945 The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
1945 US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein
1946 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
1946 Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan
1947 President Harry Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty
1952 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44
1953 AntonínZápotockýchosen as president of Czechoslovakia
1953 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
1954 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield, Mich
1954 Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
1956 Death penalty against KPM-director Leon Jungschlaeger
1956 Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis Jr premieres in NYC, 383 performances
1957 Earthquake gives SF shakes
1957 Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian
1958 20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72
1958 Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia
1958 Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)
1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Nehi Golf Tournament
1960 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes
1960 Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" opens at Shubert NYC for 300 perfs
1963 Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me"
1963 Brit Min of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler
1963 Oregon State's Terry Baker becomes 1st & only Heisman Trophy winner
1964 Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section
1964 Carol Mann wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open Invitational
1965 D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
1967 Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia
1968 Lynda Johnson ordered off SF cable car for eating an ice cream cone
1968 Student riot in Nanterre near Paris
1969 "Billy" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 1 performance
1969 "Come Summer" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 7 performances
1969 31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years
1970 "Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC
1970 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 "Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 5 perfs
1972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
1972 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP
1972 Nick Mileti purchases Cleveland Indians for $9 million
1972 Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle
1975 "Dinge-competed" wins Eurovisie Song festival
1975 "Dr Jazz" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 5 performances
1975 "Letter for Queen Victoria" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 18 perfs
1975 A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
1975 Delta State beats Immaculata for the women's AIAW championship
1975 Teach-In wins Eurovision Song Festival with "Dinge-Dong"
1975 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
1977 Dutch Den Uyl government falls
1977 Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
1978 France performs nuclear test
1978 Karl Wallenda of the The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1978 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, SF, dedicated
1978 Rutle's "All You Need is Cash" is show on NBC-TV
1979 Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
1979 NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers)
1981 1st class postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents
1981 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Desert Inn Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
1981 Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8)/30k (1:29:18.8)
1982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched
1982 Iran offensive against Iraq
1982 NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
1983 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president
1984 Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game
1984 Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
1986 Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99)
1986 HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
1986 Heart's "These Dreams," single goes #1
1986 Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
1986 Kania skates ladies world record 1500m (1:59.30)
1986 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Debi Thomas (USA)
1986 Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 Betsy King wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open
1988 Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill
1988 WA beat Queensland by 5 wkts to win the Sheffield Shield Final
1989 Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
1989 Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years
1989 US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate
1990 "Grapes of Wrath" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 188 performances
1990 "Les Miserables," opens at Shunert Theatre, Boston
1990 Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill
1990 The ML umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games
1991 Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at U of Va seizing drugs
1991 NY Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY"
1991 Pamela Smart (HS teacher) found guilty in NH of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband
1992 "Private Lives" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 37 performances
1992 Danielle Ammaccapane wins Standard Register Ping Golf Championship
1992 England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final
1992 Joseph A Molloy elected NY Yankee general partner
1992 Record producer Lou Adler weds Paige Hannah (Daryl's sister)
1992 US Air NY to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia, 27 die
1993 The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
1994 Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton)
1994 Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.68 sec)
1994 South African government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland
1994 Soyuz TM-21 lands
1995 Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space.
1995 Deputy Gov of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist
1996 Cheryl Depew, of Florida, crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic Intl
1996 STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit
1997 "Sunset Boulevard," closes at Minskoff NYC after 977 performances
1997 Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Tara Lipinski (USA)
1997 Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion women's World Figure Skating Champion.
1997 The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth (1.315 AU).
2004 Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.
2006 BC Ferries' M/V Queen of the North runs aground on Gil Island British Columbia and sinks; 101 on board, 2 presumed deaths.
2006 ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, declares a permanent ceasefire.
2006 Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.
2008 The French Swimmer Alain Bernard sets the world record of 47.50 for the 100 m freestyle long course after winning the European LC Championships 2008.
2009 Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska began erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.
2012 Australia's most wanted man, Malcolm Naden, is captured after seven years on the run in Gloucester, New South Wales
2012 Largest protest in Quebec's history occurs in Montreal with over 200,000 people marching against government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education
2012 Massive fire devours thousands of hectares of ancient forests and threatens wildlife on Mount Kenya
2013 37 people are killed and 200 are injured in a refugee camp fire in Ban Mae, Thailand
2013 American rock band My Chemical Romance annouce their break-up
2014 30 people are killed by a mudslide in Oso, Washington
2014 251 people are killed after a boat capsizes in Lake Albert, Uganda
2014 Guinea confirms Ebola outbreak has already killed 59 people
2014 The US and EU impose sanctions on Russia
2016 Suicide bombings at Brussel's Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station, leave around 28 victims dead and 260 injured, ISIS claim responsibility
Born on March 22nd
841 Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (d. 885)
875 William I, Duke of Aquitaine (d. 918)
1212 Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1235)
1366 Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399)
1459 Maximilian I of Habsburg, German Holy Roman Emperor, archduke of Austria (d. 1519)
1503 Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (d. 1583)
1599 Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter (Charles I of England) (d. 1641)
1609 John II Casimir Vasa, King of Poland (1648-68) (d. 1672)
1663 August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (d. 1727)
1700 Giuseppe Sellitto, composer
1712 Edward Moore, English writer (d. 1757)
1720 Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
1723 Charles Carroll, American statesman (d. 1783)
1728 Anton Raphael Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter
1728 Giacomo Insanguine, composer
1752 Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer
1759 Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818)
1767 Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance
1771 Heinrich D Zschokke, Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf)
1797 Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88) (d. 1888)
1799 F W A Argelander, Memel E Prussia, cataloguer of 324,188 stars
1803 Anthonie Waldrop, Dutch painter/lithographer
1808 David Swinson Maynard, Founder of Seattle, Washington State, United States of America (d. 1873)
1812 Stephen Pearl Andrews, American abolitionist (d. 1886)
1813 Gabriel Rene Paul, Brigadier General (Union volunteers (d. 1886)
1814 Thomas Crawford, US sculptor (Babes in the Wood)
1817 Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (d. 1876)
1818 John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)
1819 William Wirt Adams, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1888)
1822 Ahmed Djevdet Pasha, Turkish minister of Education/Justice
1822 Isaac D Fransen van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866)
1822 Seth Williams, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1866
1824 William Henry Chase Whiting, Major General (Confederate Army)
1834 Francis Asbury Shoup, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1896)
1842 Carl A N Rosa, German violinist/composer
1842 Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer
1846 Randolph Caldecott, England, illustrator (Caldecott Medal namesake)
1852 Otakar Ševcík, Czech violinist and violin teacher (d. 1934)
1852 Theodor Birt, [Beatus Rhenanus], German classical/writer
1857 Arnold Sauwen, 13th Flemish poet (Along the Meuse)
1857 Paul Doumer, French President (1931-32), Governer General of Indo-China (d. 1932)
1860 Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940)
1865 Theophile Ysaye, composer
1866 Jack Boyle, American baseball player (d. 1913)
1867 Meijer Linnewiel (Prof Kokadorus), Amsterdam's pitchman
1868 Hamish MacCunn, composer
1868 Henry W Methorst, lawyer/director (Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics)
1868 Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923) (d. 1953)
1869 Emilio Aguinaldo, first President of the Philippines (d. 1964)
1874 Ellen Glasgow, novelist
1878 Michel Théato, Luxembourgian athlete (d. 1919)
1880 Ernie Quigley, Canadian-American sports official (d. 1960)
1885 Adriano Lualdi, composer
1885 Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi (d. 1969)
1885 Jakabs Medins, composer
1887 Chico Marx (Leonard Martin), American comedian and actor (Marx Brothers) (d. 1961)
1896 Giulia D De Albertis, writer
1896 He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969)
1896 Joseph Schildkraut, Vienna Austria, actor (Joseph Schildkraut Presents, Diary of Anne Frank)
1901 Greta Kempton, American artist (d. 1991)
1902 Ellin Berlin (MacKay), Mrs Irving Berlin, writer (Lace Curtain)
1902 Madeleine Milhaud, French actress (d. 2008)
1903 James S Russell, US pilot/admiral (WW II Pacific Ocean)
1903 Jochen Klepper, writer
1905 Carlo Alberto Pizzini, composer
1905 Grigorij M Kosinzev, Russian director
1905 Phyllis McGinley, poet
1905 Ruth Page, US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion)
1907 James Gavin, American general and ambassador, 82nd Airborne Div General (Sicily/Normandy) (d. 1990)
1907 Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (d. 2005)
1907 Paul J Steenbergen, Neth, actor (Ciske Rat)/founder (Hague's Comedy)
1908 Albrecht Goes, writer
1908 Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (d. 1991)
1908 Louis D L'Amour, American author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett) (d. 1988)
1908 Maurice H Stans, Shakope Minn, Secretary of Commerce (1969-72)
1909 Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist (Tin Flute) (d. 1983)
1909 Jack Popplewell, composer/playwright
1910 Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist (Cruel Sea) (d. 1979)
1912 Henri Rousselot, admiral
1912 Karl Malden, American actor (Mike-Streets of SF, American Express) (d. 2009)
1912 Lord Alport
1912 Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (Hard Day's Night) (d. 1985)
1913 James Westerfield, Nashville TN, actor (Jungle Heat, Lucky Johnny)
1913 Lew Wasserman, American film studio executive (d. 2002)
1913 Sabiha Gökçen, Turkish combat pilot (d. 2001)
1913 Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (d. 1983)
1914 Cec Burke, cricketer (NZ leg-spinner v Australia 1946, 1 & 3, 2-30)
1914 Lord Stokes
1914 Masao Maruyama, social scientist
1915 Forest Sagendorf, cartoonist
1915 George Cresswell, cricketer (3 Tests for NZ aged 35)
1915 Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer (d. 2005)
1916 George Wyle, American orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show, Flip Wilson Show)
1916 Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/director (Bluejackets)
1917 C S Pick, publisher
1917 Irving Kaplansky, American mathematician (d. 2006)
1917 Virginia Grey, American actress (Another Thin Man, Idiot's Delight, Idaho) (d. 2004)
1918 Cheddi B Jagan, President of Guyana (1953, 1957-64), founder (PPP) (d. 1997)
1918 Harry Kay, vice-chancellor (Exeter U)
1918 Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer
1920 Fanny Waterman, concert pianist & teacher
1920 Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West) (d. 1981)
1920 Werner Klemperer, German-born actor (d. 2000)
1921 Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (d. 2004)
1921 Wilhelmus Norbert Schmelzer, Netherland, foreign minister (KVP)
1922 Mujib ur-Rahman, Pakistan, sheik/premier
1922 Stewart Stern, screenwriter (Rebel Without A Cause)
1923 Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant
1923 Cor N van Dis Jr, Dutch MP (SGP, 1971-94)
1923 Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (Barbarella, Silent Movie) (d. 2007)
1924 Allen Neuharth, American businessman, newspaper founder (USA Today)
1924 Bill Wendell, American television announcer (Late Night With David Letterman) (d. 1999)
1925 Colin Spedding, CEO (Council of Science & Technology Institutes)
1926 Julius Marmur, biochemist/geneticist
1926 Lawrence Jackson, Provost Emeritus (Blackburn)
1927 George Thoms, cricketer (1 Test Aust against WI 1952, scored 16 & 28)
1927 Mstislav Rostropovich, composer [3/12 OS]
1927 Viscount Bolingbroke
1928 Betty Callaway, figure skating trainer
1928 Bill Archer, (Rep-R-TX, 1971)
1928 Carrie Donovan, American fashion editor (d. 2001)
1928 DC Ingman, CEO (British Waterways Board
1928 Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian
1928 E.D. Hirsch. American social commentator
1928 Ed Macauley, American basketball player, NBA (Boston Celtics)
1929 Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist
1930 Derek Bok, American lawyer and educator, college president (Harvard)
1930 Lynden O Pindling, PM of Bahamas (1967-92)
1930 Pat Robertson, American televangelist (700 club, Pres candidate-R-1989)
1930 Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist (West Side Story, Company)
1931 Burton Richter, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1931 Igor Hajek, translator/writer
1931 Leslie Thomas, author
1931 William Shatner, Canadian actor (Star Trek, T J Hooker)
1932 Richard Thomas, admiral
1933 Abolhassan Banisadr, former President of Iran
1933 Buddy MacKay, (Rep-D-FL, 1983)
1933 Chris Duckworth, cricketer (South African batsman v England 1956-57)
1933 May Britt, Swedish actress
1934 Larry Martyn, English comedy actor (d. 1994)
1934 Leslie Turnberg, president (Royal College of Physicians)
1934 Orrin Hatch, American politician (Sen-R-UT, 1977)
1934 Sheila Cameron, QC, Vicar-General (Province of Canterbury)
1935 M(ichael) Emmet Walsh, Ogdensburg NY, American actor (Wildcats, War Party)
1936 Alan Bleasdale, author/playwright (Are You Lonesome Tonight)
1936 May Britt, Sweden, actress (Young Lions)/wife of Sammy Davis Jr
1936 Philip Ely, president (British Law Society)
1936 Roger Whittaker, British country singer (Durham Town)
1936 Ron Carey, American labor leader (Teamsters)
1937 Angelo Badalamenti, American composer
1937 Armin Hary, German athlete
1937 Jon Hassell, composer
1938 Vivian Pulliam, horse trainer
1940 Dave Keon, Canadian ice hockey player
1940 Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian/American actor (d. 1996)
1940 Jorge Ben Jor, Brazilian musician
1940 William Ritchie, vice-chancellor (Lancaster U)
1941 Billy Collins, American poet
1941 Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (Strapless, Wings of Desire)
1941 Cassam Uteem, Mauritian political figure
1941 Gary Lewis, horse trainer
1941 Jeremy Clyde, British actor and musician (Chad and Jeremy)
1942 Bernd Herzsprung, German actor
1942 Dick Pound, Canadian chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency
1942 Jon Arthur English, composer
1942 Jorge Ben Jor, Brazilian musician
1943 George Benson, American jazz musician, blues singer and guitarist (Greatest Love of All)
1943 Joseph Schwantner, composer
1943 Keith Relf, English musician (The Yardbirds) (d. 1976)
1944 Jeremy Clyde, rocker
1944 R P Mardling, headmaster (Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield)
1944 T S "Tony" McPhee, rocker (Sad Go Round)
1945 Alan Opie, baritone (Boughton Bethlehem, Britten 5 Canticles)
1945 Charles "Chuck" Jackson, US singer (Playboy, Independents)
1945 Eric Roth, American screenwriter
1945 Jeremy Clyde, England, rocker (Chad & Jeremy-Yesterday's Gone)
1946 Don Chaney, American NBA basketball player (Houston Rockets) and head coach (Detroit Pistons)
1946 Laraine Ashton, fashion models' agent (London)
1946 Rudy (Rudolf von Bittner) Rucker, American author (Wetware)
1946 Serge (Ruud Schaap), Dutch singer and guitarist (Saskia & Serge)
1947 Harry Vanda (Vandenberg), Dutch guitarist (Easybeats)
1947 James Patterson, American author
1947 Patrick Olive, percussionist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
1947 Priscilla Yates, director (Royal Academy of Dancing)
1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber, English theatre composer (Phantom of the Opera, Cats)
1948 Randy Hobbs, rocker (Johnny Winter Band, McCoys)
1948 Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist
1949 Brian Hanrahan, British TV newsman (BBC)
1949 D Watson, director (Brighton U)
1949 Fanny Ardant, French actress (Australia, Confidentially Yours)
1949 Fran Sheehan, Boston Mass, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling)
1950 Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player (world champion 1982, 1989), (d. 2012)
1951 Howard Reitzes, Southgate Ca, rocker (Iron Butterfly)
1951 Musa Khiramanovich Manarov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-4, TM-11)
1952 Bob Costas, American sports commentator and talk show host (Later)
1952 Jay Dee Daugherty, American drummer
1953 Thomas H Andrews, (Rep-D-Maine)
1955 Lena Olin, Swedish actress
1955 Pete Sessions, American politician
1955 Valdis Zatlers, 7th President of Latvia
1956 Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (d. 2003)
1956 Lena Olin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Enemies A Love Story)
1956 Lyndsay Stephen, Donnybrook WA, Australasia golfer
1957 Stephanie Mills, American actress and singer (Wiz)
1958 Joyce Lester, Australian softball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1958 Laurie David, American political activist
1958 Pete Wylie, British singer and songwriter (Sinful)
1959 Avraham Fried, Orthodox Jewish Musician
1959 Carlton Cuse, Mexican-born American TV writer and executive
1959 Matthew Modine, American actor (Full Metal Jacket)
1960 Laurie Sargent, rock vocalist (Face To Face)
1962 Diane Pavich, Melbourne Aust, golfer (1993 T50 Alpine Aust Ladies)
1962 Juan Aguilera, Spain, tennis star
1962 Tim Elliott, Perth WA, Australasia golfer
1963 Hannu Virta, Turku FIN, hockey defenseman (Team Finland)
1963 Rich Monteleone, Tampa FL, pitcher (California Angels)
1963 Suzanne Sulley, Sheffield S Yorks, rocker (Human Leauge-Human)
1964 Jeffrey Wagner, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1965 Emma Wray, English actress
1965 John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
1966 Artis Pabriks, Latvian politician
1966 Brad Edwards, NFL safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 Brian Shaw, American basketball player, NBA guard (Orlando Magic, SF Warriors)
1966 Sean Berry, Santa Monica CA, infielder (Houston Astros)
1966 Todd Ewen, Saskatoon, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1966 Yahya Ayyash, militant
1967 Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
1968 Euronymous, Norwegian black metal musician (d. 1993)
1968 Ramon Martinez, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1969 Darrell Russell, defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1969 Russell Maryland, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys, Oak Raiders)
1970 Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer
1970 Jason Rouser, Tucson Arizona, 200m/400m runner
1970 Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
1970 Travis Richards, Crystal Minn, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1971 Iben Hjejle, Danish actress
1971 Richard Castillo, jockey
1971 Will Yun Lee, American actor
1972 Cory Lidle, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1972 Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater (Oly-silver-94)
1972 John Farquhar, tight end (New Orleans Saints)
1972 Mikhail Sloutsky, WLAF LB (Scotland Claymores)
1972 Pieter Christiaan, Prince of Netherlands
1972 Shawn Bradley, American basketball player, NBA center (Dallas Mavericks, NJ Nets, Space Jams)
1973 Beverley Knight, English singer
1973 Dax Griffin, KS, actor (Tim Truman-Sunset Beach)
1973 Joe Nedney, American football player, kicker (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 Luther Elliss, NFL defensive end (Detroit Lions)
1974 Kidada Jones, American actress
1974 Kim Yun-Jung, Miss Universe-Korea (1996)
1974 Marcus Camby, American basketball player, NBA forward (Toronto Raptors)
1974 Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer
1974 Tuomas Gronman, NHL defenseman (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998, Pitts)
1975 Chris Bayne, safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1975 Cole Hauser, American actor
1975 Jason Fletcher, American sports agent
1975 Jirí Novák, Czech tennis player
1976 Kellie Shanygne Williams, American actress (Laura-Family Matters)
1976 Reese Witherspoon, American actress
1976 Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
1977 Joey Porter, American football player
1978 Tom Poti, American ice hockey player
1979 Aaron North, American musician
1979 Juan Uribe, Dominican baseball player
1979 Mariah Leanne Bergmann, Miss Kansas Teen USA (1997)
1980 Pamela O'Connor, Scottish ice dancer
1980 Shannon Bex, American singer (Danity Kane)
1981 MIMS, American rapper
1985 Mike Jenkins, American football player
1988 Tania Raymonde, American actress
1990 Eugenie, Princess of Britain
1992 Luke Freeman, English footballer
1993 Mick Hazen , American actor
2233 James T Kirk, science fiction captain of USS Enterprise (Star Trek)
Died on March 22nd
337 Constantine, Emperor of Rome
1322 Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1278)
1418 Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian
1421 Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in battle) (b. 1388)
1471 George van Podiebrad, king of Bohemia (1458-71)
1544 Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1488)
1589 Lodovico Guicciardini, Ital historian
1602 Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (b. 1557)
1627 Cornelis van Aerssen, Flemish Clerk of the House
1639 Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture)
1661 Hendrick Uylenburgh, art dealer
1685 Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
1687 Jean Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (Forced Marriage) (b. 1632)
1758 Jonathan Edwards, American minister (Original Sin) (b. 1703)
1758 Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670)
1772 John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718)
1777 John Bartram, father of American botany
1796 Gaspare Gabellone, composer
1798 Justin Morgan, composer
1820 Stephen Decatur, American naval officer, killed in a duel with Com James Barron (b. 1779)
1824 Johann Melchior Dreyer, composer
1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (b. 1749)
1838 Hendrik Fagel, Dutch/English baron
1840 Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798)
1845 Franz Joseph Volkert, composer
1867 Ferdinando Giorgetti, composer
1871 Johnny Cuzens, cricketer (Australian aboriginal tourist 1868)
1890 Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader
1896 Thomas Hughes, English novelist (b. 1822)
1906 Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer
1909 Gyula Erkel, composer
1913 Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese Nationalist (b. 1882)
1922 Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian
1923 Theophile Delcasse, French statesman
1924 R G Nivelle, French general (Verdun)
1924 William Macewen, Scottish surgeon (b. 1848)
1929 Anton Beer-Walbrun, composer
1931 Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League
1934 Theophilos Hatzimihail, Greek painter (b. 1870)
1944 Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed
1945 J Postuma, Dutch resistance fighter
1945 John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1857)
1946 Clemens A von Galen, bishop of Munster/anti fascist
1951 J Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (Mattheus Passion) (b. 1871)
1952 Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)
1953 James Anderson II, (Jo-Northern Exposure)
1955 Ivan Šubašic, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister and last ban of Croatia (b. 1892)
1956 George A L Sarton, Belgian/US historian
1958 Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days)
1958 Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
1960 José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (b. 1904)
1962 Aura Abranches, Port actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio)
1964 Addison Richards, actor (Col-Pentagon)
1966 John Harlin, American mountaineer (b. 1935)
1969 Ernst Deutsch, [Dorian], Czech actor (3rd Man, Golem)
1971 Martin Bodmer, writer
1974 Peter Revson, American racecar driver (Indianapolis 500) (b. 1939)
1975 Asa Smith Bushnell Jr, Sec of US Olympics (1945-65)
1975 Cass Daley, actress (Red Garters)
1975 Paul Verhoeven, German director
1977 A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904)
1978 Karl Wallenda, German acrobat, falls to death walking high-wire in PR (b. 1905)
1979 Ben Lyon, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Indiscreet)
1981 James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (b. 1915)
1986 Charles Starrett, American actor (Silver Streak, Jungle Bride) (b. 1903)
1986 Mark Dinning, American singer (b. 1933)
1986 Olive Deering, American actress (b. 1918)
1987 Joan Shawlee, actress (Abbott & Costello Show)
1990 Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (b. 1928)
1991 Dave Guard, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1934)
1991 Gloria Holden, American film actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot) (b. 1908)
1991 Léon Balcer, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
1993 Cec Pepper, cricketer (NSW & Commonwealth XI leggie)
1993 Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreographer (Entartet)
1993 Phia (Sophia R) Berghout, Dutch harpist
1993 Steve Olin, American baseball player (Cleve Indians) (b. 1965)
1993 Tim Crews, pitcher (Cleve Indians)
1994 Dan Hartman, American musician, songwriter, and record producer (Love Sensations) (b. 1950)
1994 Igor Aleinikov, Russian director (tractors, air crash)
1994 Luther Diamond, radio Personality
1994 Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker) (b. 1900)
1995 Peter Woods, newsreader
1996 Billy Williamson, American musician with Bill Haley & His Comets (b. 1925)
1996 Claude Mauriac, writer
1996 Don Murray, American musician (The Turtles) (b. 1945)
1996 Robert Franklin Overmyer, astronaut (STS 5, STS 51-B)
1996 Robert Mellors, gay activist
1996 Ronald George Hayward, political manager
1999 David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
2001 Sabiha Gökçen, Turkish combat pilot (b. 1913)
2001 William Hanna, American animator and studio founder (b. 1910)
2003 Terry Lloyd, English reporter (b. 1952)
2004 Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. 1937)
2005 Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)
2006 Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author (b. 1937)
2006 Lawrence Stephen, Nauruan politician (b. 1939)
2006 Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (b. 1921)
2007 Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1918)
2008 Cachao López, Cuban mambo musician (b. 1918)
2009 Jade Goody, British reality TV Star and Entrepreneur (b. 1981)
2009 Leon Walker, British rugby player, Wakefield Wildcats (b. 1988)
2010 James W. Black, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical research scientist (b. 1924)
2013 Bebo Valdés, Cuban pianist, bandleader, and composer (b. 1918)
2013 Pietro Mennea, Italian sprinter
2014 Patrice Wymore, American actress
2016 Phife Dawg [Malik Taylor] American rapper (A Tribe called Quest)
2016 Rob Ford, Canadian politician (Toronto mayor caught with cocaine)
2016 Rita Gam, American actress (Night People, Hannibal)